Herrensauna closes out 2024 with a full venue takeover. The Berlin queer party’s fearless approach to artful raving, transgressive expression and bold, at times shocking aesthetics is nearly peerless in the modern techno underground. MCMLXXXV and CEM both take on BASEMENT. As the heart of Herrensauna, the pair represents the vision of the party as no one else can. MCMLXXXV’s riveting, coursing sound imagines techno as a feverish night ride, with teeth gritting tension and unstoppable rolling propulsion. CEM harnesses the storm with a more febrile, undulating approach. Pulling from every corner and every page of the playbook, CEM builds a pulsating energy field from the deepest cuts. But when it’s time to strap in, he knows exactly what to do. Isabella Koen returns for a b2b with DJ Richard. Koen has straddled the line between scorching club energy and the noise underworld for years. Her works seize the techno mantle with unbridled imagination and a consistently fresh perspective - right in line with the Herrensauna ethos. DJ Richard is, of course, one of the founders of White Material, a label whose intuitive, exploratory approach to dance music brought us some of the most singular, unexpected underground club anthems of the last decade. Octo Octa makes her STUDIO debut. Since her debut 12” more than ten years ago, Octo Octa has become one of the most essential voices in modern house. Her own tracks are wide-open, heartfelt paeans to the cathartic joys of dance that will, in her own words, “have you smiling, crying, screaming, and dancing.” As half of T4T LUV NRG (with Eris Drew, who plays the night before), Octo Octa has been a key force in the movement for trans visibility and liberation. Believe us, this will be special. Lisbon’s Ketia has distinguished themselves in STUDIO with sets that tweak a classic house sound into bold new shapes. Pumping the tempos and sparking a sense of incendiary, undiluted catharsis, Ketia brings an impossible-to-miss vitality to the DJ booth. Sterling Juan Diaz represents NY. A mainstay of the current moment and an artist of defiant focus, Sterling Juan Diaz is on a creative tear that must not be missed.